Question about Contributions to GTL

[ryanketzner]

Hello. I've been using GTE extensively for my research as a graduate student, and over the last couple of years I've added a number of updates in my fork of the project. Some of these are new features and some are straightforward improvements to existing code (e.g., making code that was previously limited to 2D/3D N-dimensional). Some of the new features I've added are also general enough that I think they would fit nicely into the library. One example is "test containment" queries, which test if a shape is a subset of another shape, another is functionality to construct uniform or random point-grids on the interior or boundary of shapes. Once GTL 1 is online, I plan to port all of my updates into the new library. It would be nice if some of these could be included in GTL. Do you plan on defining a basic framework for open-source contributions to GTL?

Thanks for all of your excellent work with this library, it has been so helpful to me over the course of my phd program! Best, Ryan.

[davideberly]

I need to finish the GTL work first. At some time, I will open up GTL for contributions. I have gotten old enough that eventually I will be unable to continue with the project. I already have a close friend and colleague who has agreed to take over management of the code base. I have instructed him to allow people to contribute to the code base.